2 INTRODUCTION. 



Washington (himself a great enthusiast for 

 farming), and to the rich soils of America. 

 With all these encouragements/ therefore, 

 having got the books printed, and upwards 

 of five hundred subscribers to the work (of 

 the most respectable gentlemen in England), 

 as a recommendation to the gentlemen in 

 America, I speculated to make a rapid for- 

 tune. As General Washington had sent 

 over a plan of Mount Vernon, divided into 

 distinct farms, I pitched on one of twelve 

 hundred acres of land ; the rent twenty- 

 two shillings per acre, or so much in pro- 

 duce delivered to him at a market-price; 

 to have a power of viewing the farm before 

 accepting it. This, with the view of print- 

 ing my EXPERIENCED FARMER in Ame- 

 rica,, and of taking over race-horses, cattle, 

 and hogs, in the ship, altogether seemed a 

 most favourable prospect. 



